The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-19


The military school at Orlando promises
| to be big success.
The Jail building at Barlow is rapidly
nearing completion.
1t is only twelve days till Barlow will be
very dry or very wet.
The lemon crop in the DeLand section is
being prepared for market.
L. II. Donkel is building an addition to
his warehouse in Winter Park.
A Putnam, of DeLand, is in the North, ne
| gOtiating for an electric light plant
| Out of a population of nearly 2,000 De-
Land has had but two deaths for the past
| four months.
Postmaster Tanner, of DeIand, reports
| the receipts of the office much larger
than at any previous year at this season.
Eatonville, a town near Maitland, was
Incorporated on Aug. Is under colored adj
ministration. c. H. Boyer is the acting
| Mayor.
C. NJ. Drake, who has charge of Dr.
| Kingston's grove at Lake Helen, is about to
| ship fifty boxes of fine lemons of the Villa
| Franco variety.
| DR.. Henkel is erecting large new build
ing in Winter Park, which viii add much
| to the appearance of that thriving village
| 1t will be known as Henkel's block
Mrs. Murray, the wife Of the physician at
| Ship Island, died Tuesday. The lady had
| gone i'll bathing while in an oyerheated con
| dition, and her death occurred shortly after
| emerging from the water.
Vacant houses in DeIand are being rap
| idly rented by Northern families, who wish
TO spend the winter there, in order to avail
! themselves of that excellent educational
institution, the DeIand University
| j. P. Mace, of Lake Helen, will plant
| mach int
About six weeks ago he planted Bermuda
| grass lawn, and already has one of the pref
test lawns in Florida-smooth and even as
a floor
J. E. Onley, treasurer OF the committee
of colored men charged with raising funds
for the erection of a Colored Industrial
School in Jacksonville, paid over to DR..
Babcock 1862 70 as the amount collected for
that purpose.
| O. j. III. Summers, of Jacksonville has
withdrawn from the defense of the burglar
bridegroom Adams, who was arrested last
| week Immediately upon his return from
| Palatka, where he had been married to a
young lady of Jacksonville.
Monday the Sheriff of Lafayette county,
| with w. w. Cooper in custody, who muir
dered Emmett Stripping over month ago,
reached Live Oak, and Cooper was turned
over to John r. Sessions, Suwannee coun-
|
The assessed value of property in DeLand
in 1888 was $4,000; in 1885, 1886, 1893; in
1887 Notwithstanding the great fire that de-
stroyed $4,000 worth OF property it was
| S35S, 200 which goes to show that the Gevel-
opment of that section has not only been
steady, but rapid.
A stranger at Lake Como reports that he
was pumping the old darby, Dave Washing
ton, the other day, for information regard
ing alligators and their nests, when Dave
gave him the following advice: "When YOU
find a nest, mind you don't touch de middle
egg. OATS de king egg. Eff you touch it,
it rings out loud. like bell, and de old
| 'gator'll come and git you shop
| Tuesday, about Q o'clock, difficulty oc-
| Cured in New Town, a suburb of St. Angus
tine, between a colored man and woman
Jim Lewis, another colored man, hearing
the disturbance, went into the house to try
and stop it, but Sandy Clay, the man Ell
| gagged in the atfray, Immediately turned on
him and razored him pretty thoroughly,
cutting him three times in the arm and hand
and oHce on the back After doing the cut
ting Clay skipped for parts unknown.
| r. +. Ximanies, assessor of St Johns
| county, has Just completed his books for
1887, giving a grand total of values, per-
! sonal and real, for the year of 81 800, SIP
| an increase of $3.50, 924 over last wear. which
now nearly completed, and upon which
nearly S2,000,00 have been expended The
| county tax for 1878 will probably be fixed
at about per cent. by the Board of County
| Commissioners at their next regular meet
ing.
An informal meeting of the Fernandina
| Boat Club was held at the rooms of Commo-
dOre Southwick, Wednesday, at which NJ l..
Hartridge, owner of the Cheemaun, was
Mr. afttsi Acra 70
Fernandna as the place, and probably about
Aug. 30 as the date for sailing the race with
the Mischief, of Tampa. The precise date
could not be named this early, but he had
been assured that the race would be sailed.
and that the Mischief would DO ready on
time. The boat club will also arrange for a
regatta of all boats belonging to jackson
vile, st. Augustine and Fernandina.
The Teachers Institute is in session at
Maclenny this week. They are using the
hall at the st. James Academy for their
meetings. The teachers present are: Prof.
II. n. Felllil, Tallahassee, Fla. J. NJ. T.
Erwin, Sylvania, Ga. Mrs. H. X Ingram,
Jacksonville; Rev. G. S. Snowden, Prof.
Il. T. Woods, Mrs D. w. Rogers Miss Susie
+. A. Dewey, Glen st. Mary: w II. Groo-
yer, p +. Canova, A. J. w. Cobb and
Arthur Hardaker, of Sanderson. Mrs In
gram gave a lecture at the Methodist EpiS-
copal church Monday evening; subject:
Panama Canal" The lecture was spoken
highly of by all who heard il.
Pensacola Commercial: Capt. Patterson,
formerly of the Swedish bark Adalen,
which was condemned and sold at this port,
few months ago, said TO a reporter yes
terday that he had been all over the world
and To all of its finest harbors, and nowhere
on the face Of the earth is there such a mag
nificent harbor as Pensacola Bay 1.-The
nearest approach to this perfection" said he
(he and the writer were in the middle of the
bay, lis the harbor of Rio de Janero, i'm
Brazil, South America" The Captain, who
is practical, if ut times theoretical, sees
glorious future for this city from its very
eligibility 60 the demands of trans-conti-
nental longitudinal commerce, aud says
but very few years will witness most inn
portant business changes at this point.
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